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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
Again, I'm an official in other sports, but not basketball. I have to ask, though, how this is possible (assuming we're not in a running clock game).
Either the foul happened before the buzzer, thus leaving SOME time on the clock... or it didn't, thus there was no foul.
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Human reaction time, to be blunt.
There's the reaction time of the person running the clock. Then there's the reaction time of the non-calling officials hearing the whistle then looking at the clock.
Even if we know there was a short time lag, if we don't
see how much time to put back on the clock, by rule we can't guess.
Also, as has been pointed out, 99% of the time, there will be a lag between the actual foul and the whistle. The contact/foul could happen with a second remaining. The whistle could blow with .2 second remaining. The timer's reaction time takes .2 second, and so does the off-ball official's.
In NFHS, we don't get to use video replays for this.